Thanks for the info - checked the website - Though it has some good reviews it seems it is not for novices like me as from the info one needs to be technically inclined to understand the technical language and make droplets etc?

Thanks for the info - checked the website - Though it has some good reviews it seems it is not for novices like me as from the info one needs to be technically inclined to understand the technical language and make droplets etc?

Sue

FileBuddy is available as a 10-day trial. You might want to give it a try (no need of droplets) or you might find TidyUp a better choice.

Personally, I use a shell script but I understand that terminal use is beyond your wishes…

I have a problem like this too. I ended up importing hundreds of files and converting them to DNG in LR. I clicked on the "new photos" rather than the "all" button on the import dialogue and ended up with all anyway. I deliberatley did not choose the don't import suspected dupes option because camera counters can roll over the same file number sometimes.

Now I have up to 5 dupes in some cases with extensions of -1 -2 -3 etc., on the same basic file number.

I'm on Windows 7. Anyone know of a PC based package that might do this? Thanks.

I’ve been using a free program called “Duplicate Cleaner” for the last couple of weeks to remove terabytes of duplicate files off of several serves. It works well but will fail if it has to look at more than about a TB of data at a time. The last scan I did, as example, found and removed about 128 GB of duplicates.